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While working in Powershell, how do I pause between list items?

I have been working on this for a while and I cannot find this utilization anywhere. I am using a powershell array and the foreach statement: @('program 1','program 2','program 3').foreach{winget show $_ -args}

I then want to have a pause between each one so I added ;sleep 1
This does not work. It pauses for 3s (based on this eg.) and then lists the items. What am I missing here?

Solution

  • Indeed it doesn't seem to respect the order, I don't know the technical reason why. You could either use a normal ForEach-Object

    'program 1','program 2','program 3' | ForEach-Object {
    winget show $_
    sleep 1
}

    or force the output to go to the console instead of being "buffered"

    ('program 1','program 2','program 3').ForEach{
    winget show $_ | Out-Host
    sleep 1
}